Templar, Simon Templar. Nope—doesn’t have the same ring as 007, yet somehow Roger Moore managed to make both characters ooze cool. Granted Connery got the better end of the car deal with his Bond’s Aston Martin DB5, but Moore still scored with a submarining Lotus Esprit and Templar’s Volvo P1800 he drove in the television show The Saint.
Cut to 2022, and we open on a Cerulean Blue P1800 streaking through morning’s first light. It’s a far cry from the original car that Moore would have driven, but Cyan Racing has reimagined this Swedish classic that Simon Templar would surely have been excited to drive. Building customer cars to support a racing habit remains a long-standing tradition in the automotive industry. The team at Cyan Racing, established in 1996 and responsible for starting Volvo’s Polestar racing program, are located at
